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You should format you shared disks with NTFS before you form you cluster. If not the disks will not be eligible as witness disks. (NTFS is a requirement for a disk witness.) Do not assign a drive letter or mount point to your witness disk. (Disks used e.g. for a clustered file server needs a …
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As with Windows Server 2008, Windows Search is included as part of the OS and can be installed through Server Manager or PowerShell. Unfortunately it is located in a not quite intuitive place… To enable Windows Search on Windows Server 2008 R2 you must start the Add Roles wizard and then select File Services Role, …
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I recently upgraded my home network to Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), retiring my old ISA Server 2006 server. I exported my ISA configuration and imported it into TMG, but to be on the safe side I decided to keep a copy of the server as a virtual machine. I used the P2V wizard in …
Windows Deployment Services (WDS) has the ability to search Active Directory for pre-staged computer accounts to use when deploying images. There are several benefits to this, e.g. you can choose to service only known clients that you have created and ignore others, and you don’t have to provide or generate computer names since the image …
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In smaller deployments Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a good, free alternative for anti-malware. If you decide to use MSE in your images, you will discover that sysprep resets the Out Of Box Experience (OOBE) settings for MSE. In other words; every user that logs on to a machine deployed from your image will see …
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Warning/Error number VMM Description VMM Recommended action Possible cause/Resolution 10696 The host network adapter does not support the specified virtual network adapter configuration. Select a host network adapter that supports this configuration. Remove the check mark for Enable virtual network optimizations on the virtual network adapter in the Hardware Configuration tab of the virtual machine.
Introduction RFC 2671 defines the Extension mechanisms for DNS (EDNS), or EDNS0 as it is also known. EDNS is a specification for expanding the size of several parameters of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol. More info about EDNS here. As of Windows Server 2008 R2, the Windows DNS service will use EDNS in its …
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KB article 958662 explains how to user Windows Server Backup, the new backup software included with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, to backup up Hyper-V virtual machines. The article walks you through creating a new Registry value to enable support for the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provider for Hyper-V. I have …
Event logged in the DNS Server log when a query is received for a name that exists in an authoritative zone, but is also on the global query block list: EventID : 7600 MachineName : lab-dc1.lab.net EntryType : Warning Message : The global query block list is a feature that prevents attacks on your network …
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A Windows Vista machine has a user called fourthcoffeejoberry logged on. Another user, fourthcoffeehenrikjensen logs on with Remote Desktop. fourthcoffeehenrikjensen receives this message, and presses Yes: The logged on user, fourthcoffeejoberry will see this popup on her desktop and press OK: While fourthcoffeehenrikjensen waits for fourthcoffeejoberry to respond, this message is displayed in his Remote …